UN Proposal: Tracking Near Earth Objects

[Boktavia II]

Tracking Near Earth Objects
A resolution to improve world security by boosting police and military budgets.
 
Category: International Security Strength: Mild Proposed by: Mikitivity
Description: The General Assembly,

AWARE that existing international, national, and non-governmental research in the space sciences are continuously identifying Near Earth Objects (NEOs) including many asteroids and comets which have the potential to one day collide with the Earth,

OBSERVING that some of these space sciences programs are not specifically charged with identification and characterization of the hazards posed by NEOs,

RECOGNIZING that the risk of a NEO impact is shared by all nations on Earth, and thus is of international concern,

TAKING NOTE of the "Report of the Task Force on potentially hazardous Near Earth Objects",

NOTHING WITH APPROVAL the Planetary Defense Conference, held February 23-26, 2004,

CONCERNED that the funding of current space sciences projects and conferences is fairly limited,

BEARING IN MIND that adequate warning time is a requirement for any space or terrestrial based response, ranging from mass evacuation to impact avoidance,

NOTING WITH CONCERN that few formal management plans for dealing with potential impacts exist,

APPROVING of the use of hazard assessment scales, such as the Torino Impact Scale, as a means of weighing the risk of impact with the consequences of an impact,

1. ENCOURAGES all nations, United Nations members and non-members, to share any information on the trajectories of any Near Earth Objects (NEOs);

2. FURTHER ENCOURAGES United Nations members to seek agreements with non-member states to share any information related to NEOs;

3. EXPRESSES ITS HOPE that nations will continue to identify and characterize the hazard associated with potential NEO impacts;

4. SOLEMNLY AFFIRMS the continuation of pre-existing international, national, and non-governmental research in the space sciences (which are considered to be included in military budgets for the purposes of NationStates); and

5. RECOMMENDS that international, national, and non-governmental space science research groups continue to research and develop possible contingency plans should an impact be likely.

[Henneth annun]

I think its ok but,
I need your guys help in writing my article.

[Bad Infinitum]

Too long.

[New Age Guilds]

how about this

the new un proposal ..... was accepted world wide as a proposal that was going to work. allthough the papacy outrightly refused to alow this to happen, it still was accepted by the un. voting ends ....

[Parthini]

I am confused. What exactly, other than stating a bunch of junk about NEOs and the need to do something about them, does this proposal do? It never proposes anything but the sharing of NEO knowledge. In my opinion, this is a worthless proposal which should not even have gotten on the board. Vote NO just in case it does do something like waste our money.

GPP

[Down under there]

It doesn't do much but it looks good as far as it goes.

[RichfieldMN]

I voted no for the utter length and boring nature of the resolution. It makes no sense what so ever and proposes nothing that I can see.

[Odracir]

I agree with Richfield. Waaaaaaaayyyyyy too long for me, not to mention boring. And even if it was short, I still disagree with it.

[Sheynat]

Not only is it crazy long, it doesn't even DO anything. It just HOPES, and APPROVES, and AFFIRMS, and ENCOURAGES and RECOMMENDS, and OTHER SUCH IMPOTENT CAPITALIZED VERBS. It doesn't actually RESOLVE, or DEMAND, or REQUIRE, it won't even GIVE YOU A DOLLAR or do anything else to make you comply, or even make you want..a waste of capital letters.

[droonia]

I voted yes. I think it might work well.

[Boktavia II]

The majority has ruled that I will vote Yes on this proposal.